| big difference between a score than is "memorable" and one you can "remember" the tunes of immediately | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 12:43 am EST 01/02/25 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:34 am EST 01/02/25 | |
| In reply to: Death Becomes Her/She/Me - AnObserver 11:58 am EST 12/28/24 | |
|
|
|
| You bring up A Strange Loop as an example here... personally, I found that score very MEMORABLE, even if I didn't go out humming the tunes. What the score was like made an impact, how the story/play of it was *musicalized* made a memorable impact, and in particular the songs (meaning the music and the lyrics and how they worked together) "Inwood Daddy", "Periodically" and "Memory Song" stuck with me heavily and when i got the album I played them many times to relive what I'd experienced with them live (for the record, this was when I saw the show at Playwrights, and that original album). I would say the same about Fun Home. So while they're no Sound of Music in terms of being memorable, they are very memorable. I do not think when people say the DEATH BECOMES HER score is unmemorable that they mean it in the same way you do when you say the score to FUN HOME is unmemorable. But there is very little in common with the way the score of Death Becomes Her works and what Tesori or JRB do. Actually, I find that Tesori and JRB, especially when at their best, write some of the most memorable score Broadway has seen in many decades. Parade, Caroline or Change, Fun Home, Bridges of Madison County, Last 5 Years, Violet, even Songs For a New World, Millie... these are sensational and extremely memorable scores that stand out. And they have personality to spare. I don't think you'll find many people so willing to throw the DBH score into the same category as Tesori or JRB, and the fact that you do as if they are, or are commonly seen as, cut from the same cloth or the same school or writing musicals, makes me think you know very little about what you even mean. I'm curious what composers who started in musicals after 1990 DO you like or think are "memorable" or have "personality" or write more than "the same 3 notes"? Or even after 1980? Just to get an idea. |
|
| reply | |
|
|
|
| Previous: | Death Becomes Her/She/Me - AnObserver 11:58 am EST 12/28/24 |
| Next: | re: Death Becomes Her/She/Me - Jason 10:06 pm EST 12/30/24 |
| Thread: | |
Time to render: 0.027813 seconds.